It may be that negative existence records get created in dictionary cache (or remain there when they shouldn't stay there): I once wrote a paper about it and you can use v$rowcache_parent to check this: http://www.tanelpoder.com/files/oracle_rowcache.pdf -- Tanel Poder New online seminars! http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle-training-seminars On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Henry Poras <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are getting some very odd permissions errors on our development > databases. Things run smoothly for a while, but when the errors appear, the > appear for all new schema until we flush the shared pool. > > Our environment consists of developers each creating their own schema, with > each schema looking fairly identical to each other schema. On completion of > work, the schema is dropped. > > Every so often we see > > dbms_aqadm.start_queue > * > ERROR at line 10: > ORA-06550: line 10, column 5: > PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_AQADM' must be declared > ORA-06550: line 10, column 5: > PL/SQL: Statement ignored > >